Sage 50 Accounting Solutions:
You might think that all an accounts package does is manage your finances and cash flow.
Sage 50 2008 does much more than that, helping you to manage and grow your business.
Sage 50 Accounts 2008
The entry point into the range, Sage 50 Accounts 2008 has all the standard features you need to manage all your customers and suppliers professionally.
Sage 50 Accounts Plus 2008
As well as helping you to balance your books and control your VAT, Sage 50 Accounts Plus 2008 has all the tools you need to keep track of your materials and manage your stock.
Sage 50 Accounts Professional 2008
Sage 50 Accounts Professional 2008 takes all the features and benefits of Sage 50 Accounts Plus, and adds sales and purchase order processing, stock control, project management and foreign trading tools. It also has the flexibility to handle up to 10 users and manage multiple companies, giving you the information you need to drive your business forward.
Features and Benefits
Managing finances:
Managing your finances. The Nominal Ledger is an essential part of your accounting system, where all your business information is held, and forms the basis of your Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet reports, making sure you can perform important business tasks with ease.
Quicker and easier bank reconciliations. You can record multiple bank accounts and their details, enter payments and receipts and save your bank reconciliations part-way through. And to keep track of your banking without all the paper waste, you can use Sage's software to download a bank statement and automatically reconcile payments and receipts against both statements.
Plan your cash flow. See all outstanding payments due in and out, so that you can plan cash flow in advance. You are able to see the effect that making or receiving payments will have on your finances over the next few weeks.
Get the most out of your accountant. Easily exchange information with your accountant while you continue working on your accounts. The Accountant Link automatically lets your accountant update your journals, bank and VAT reconciliations, so they always have your most up-to-date records.
Store your company data. You can archive a complete set of company data before running the year-end. You can then analyse and report on the archived data, and access it immediately without having to restore a back-up.
Better business insight. Use the accounting information stored within your software to generate both Balance Sheets and Profit and Loss Sheets at the touch of a button.
Managing your business:
Get the information you need wth flexible management reports. Report Designer makes it easy for you to get the information you need in one report. You can tailor the overall design of your reports, adding all the fields and calculations you want, so you can have a better picture of your business.
Excel® integrated reporting. Microsoft® Excel links directly to your software so that directors and managers can access and analyse accounts information without needing to use Sage Accounts 2008 themselves or have it installed on the same PC. You can modify and refresh data ranges, change the chart of accounts used and take any report (even a report you've designed yourself) and use it in Excel as a Sage Data Range.
Managing your customers and suppliers:
Take card payments over the phone. Sage know that more and more businesses want to offer card payment facilities to their customers and Sage 50 Accounts 2008 gives you the tools to do it quickly and securely. With an additional charge, Sage Payment Solutions, powered by Protx, updates your accounts automatically when you take card payments.
Speed up your invoices and orders. Reduce costs, improve the efficiency of your business and increase your service levels by managing your invoices and orders electronically - send and receive them via email directly from your Sage 50 Accounts software.
Effective credit control. Improve your cash flow and know who owes you what, and when, with effective credit control. You can record detailed credit information about your customers and suppliers, with all credit control functions in one central area. Keep and control a full credit history for both customers and suppliers.
Store your documents. You can store, view, modify and print attachments such as letters, price lists, delivery and assembly instructions, letting you keep control of all your documentation within Sage 50 Accounts 2008.
Managing your products
You can easily create product records, review product activities and analyse monthly sales values and quantities sold. You can also apply discounts and generate valuation and profit reports.
Monitor key areas of your business. Manage the performance of key areas or activities more effectively. Track your business activity, by area, with the flexibility to drilldown to more detail. Information is instantly available, so you no longer have to run reports to get the breakdown you need.
For further information, please download:
Sage 50 Accounts 2008 brochure